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Paul's Xmas Pudding Website

The most comprehensive site about Christmas Pudding!

This recipe site has been extended and is now probably the most comprehensive resource on Xmas, or Christmas Puddings. I've included Pudding sauces, Pudding jokes, Pudding alternate ingredients, photos, Christmas Pudding stories, what to do with left-over Christmas Pudding, Christmas Pudding traditions, and, there's even an arcade type game "Puddingoids"! After 25 years, this is by far my best recipe. I hope your family and guests will think so too. I have tried to answer every question, and have made this an EASY recipe for anyone who wants to make a real traditional Christmas/Plum pudding.

If I have got anything wrong, please let me know, I'm always willing to learn! Oh, and why is it "traditional"? Not because the pudding contains meat, it hasn't, although I believe the recipes over over 200 years ago did, it's traditional because it still requires Suet, and some time to prepare the ingredients, and eight hours to steam! Let me just say, on Christmas day, you will say to yourself "It was all worth it!"

Update December 2008; People frequently ask me, if I make the pudding in different sized bowls does the cooking time vary, NO, it does not, even if you split the christmas pudding mixture into 6 smaller bowls, cooking and reheating times REMAIN THE SAME.

Thanks, Paul Denyer, Melbourne, Australia

SERVES 10 TO 12 PEOPLE This recipe makes one large steamed pudding in a 2 pint (1.2 litre) basin. and will need a day's advance preparation!